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The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.

Bill Nye

We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need engineers that can build stuff and solve problems.
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Literate Problem Scientific Solve
Humor is everywhere in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.
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Country Funny Humor People
How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?
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Inquiry Our Resistance Society
When we explore the cosmos, we come to believe and prove that we can solve problems that have never been solved. It brings out the best in us. Space exploration imbues everyone with an optimistic view of the future.
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Believe Optimistic Space
I’ll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders.
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Development Discovery Research Years
Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. If one’s faith requires one to abandon or ignore natural laws, well, that person is going to have trouble reconciling religion and science. Otherwise, there is no any conflict.
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Conflict Goal Law
I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that’s completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it. Because we need them.
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Kids Needs Say World
Nuclear fission wasn’t discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example.
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Country Discovered Example Fission Nuclear Papers
One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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Drawbacks Hearing Spells
No matter what you may believe spiritually or otherwise, the Earth is clearly not 6,000 or 10,000 years old.
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Believe Earth Matter Spiritually Years
There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as “we”; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.
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Editors People Two
Educated women have fewer kids. And the kids they do have are better cared for and are more successful. As I like to say, it’s not one thing that we need to focus on. It’s everything all at once.
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Education Everyone Need One
Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I’m hopeful, but very, very concerned.
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Burning Coal Hopeful
Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
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Change Climate Environmental Issues Thinking
If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.
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Broadway Dancer Media
Talk about science with everyone you meet. Especially talk about climate change. It needs to become a part of our everyday conversation (the way it is everywhere else in the world).
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Climate Every Day Needs

The Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.

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